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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing that Biologist Conklin wants less than to spoil the celebration. But as a scholar and scientist he is an uncompromising iconoclast. So he thinks it only fair to make the point that the cell theory was set afoot not in 1839 but during the previous 170 years, not by Herren Schleiden and Schwann but by a number of men almost nobody knows...
Three days later the House sat through 14 hours of tumultuous debate. At 1 a. m. it passed and sent to the Senate a measure designed to make Relief in 1940 quite different from previous years. > Total money voted...
...Chinese since 1894. The Japanese, who aspire to rule the Far East as Britain has ruled Europe since Elizabeth's day, by fragmentation of the neighboring continent, had grown frightened of China's growing political unity and economic strength. Under Strong Man Chiang Kaishek, who the previous December had formed a tacit anti-Japanese front with the powerful Chinese Red Army, China was close to being an integrated nation-closer than at any time since the 18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched from southern Burma to beyond Vladivostok. Moreover, native Chinese businessmen...
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...Dorothy Thompson was restless again. She had just divorced the elusive Josef Bard and Lewis was being divorced by his first wife. After their marriage in 1928, she plunged into her new career as wife of the No. 1 U. S. novelist as energetically as she had followed her previous ones. She helped to rebuild a house in Vermont and filled it with guests. She set up an establishment in Bronxville that soon became famous as a salon. She called herself Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. She had a baby. For two years she hardly read a book. She wrote some articles...